Hey RK,
Did I ever tell you about my M-14 "whippet" brush gun I had done for me in Bien Dien province? Best piece of GI engineering I know of...liberated a M-14 and had poppa san bob the barrel about an inch ahead of the gas cylinder thingee and had the stock cut off about 2" behind the pistol grip. Used some ruck straps as a sling/cradle. Pappa San also braised together a set of 2 combined 20 round mags. The springs were weakened in the heating (?) process so could only do about 32 rounds per mag.
Wore that mammyjammer across my chest when breaking bush..and when we got incoming sniper, I could lay down a convincing base of fire until the "pig" (M-60) <img border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" title="" src="graemlins/drink.gif" /> moved up and the guys could begin fire and maneuver. It was exceptionally effective on night ambushes, except that I was always blinded by the flash and deafened by the noise. And in a close up firefight, man, did it ever ROAR...
they thought they had run into something tough with a MG up front. (Minor edit by admin-JS)
Tales of my "Attack Mule" at someother time.
Tom A.
Still, all in all, not a bad deal for a traded bottle of Jim Beam